Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:48:04 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: Overriding X on panic |
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On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 04:10:43PM +0000, Alan wrote: > > modesettings to use can still be in userspace, the execution of the > > series of IO's would be in the kernel, and the kernel would store > > bundles of settings, including a "rescue" one, but also for > > suspend/resume... > > The mode switch sequences for modern cards are a bit more hairy than > lists of I/O poking unfortunately.
The int 10 call to get back to text mode generally seems to work, but, uh. Yeah. Maybe not.
(I'm sure nobody would /really/ object to linking x86emu into the kernel...) -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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